The Uninvited Co., Inc wrote:
Greg Maxwell has made the point earlier that if, as a community, we want to revert any large block deletions by IPs without edit summaries, we would be better served to modify one of the many existing bots to do so rather than encourage people to do it. And I believe that Greg and I are in agreement that such blind reversions are a bad thing, regardless of whether they are performed by people or bots. People should be expected to read, particularly so in an era when we have so many anti-vandalism bots operating.
While it's certainly nice for people to read all edits, on the flip side, people should be expected to post at least a few words in the edit summary, especially for significant changes. Something like "deleting rant" would be sufficient. Making large changes without so much as a single word in comment (in either the edit summary or talk page) is rather discourteous.
-Mark